Too soon … ? First photos are circulating of CBS All Access’ nine-part adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Stand,” which presents an apocalyptic vision of a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil.
Though production fell four days short due to the real-world pandemic, and a precise release date has not been set, King himself penned the final installment — which will include a new coda that didn’t exist in his original best-selling novel.
Courtesy of Vanity Fair (see read full story here), the photos include “True Blood” alum Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, a demonic figure who appears in plague survivors’ dreams, Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, a prophet who receives visions from God and